temenos
Americannoun
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temenoi,
plural
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temene
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This is a sacred "temenos," an inviolate grove, set apart to some god; and within the fences of the compound no mortal dare set foot under pain of direful sacrilege and pollution.
From A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life by William Stearns Davis
These remote fields they are supposed to hold in perpetuity, apart from the temenos, which, in Mr. Ridgeway's opinion, reverted, on the death of each holder, to the community, save where kingship was hereditary.
From Homer and His Age by Andrew Lang
He placed a great stone gateway to the temenos, an outer temenos wall and gateway, with a colonnade between the gates.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
Thus the north porch gave admission to a temenos, but not according to present theory to the eastern cella of Athena.
From Problems in Periclean Buildings by G. W. (George Wicker) Elderkin
The simple and convenient order would have been: Hekatompedon, Erechtheum, temple or temenos of Pandrosus.
From Problems in Periclean Buildings by G. W. (George Wicker) Elderkin
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